The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-03-18
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

1t 3,150 miles from Washington to San
Francisco.
The new state department has $50 rooms.
and cost So 100000.
The new war department has 173 rooms,
and cost $2,5O0,O0O. The building has 4l2
rooms.
Washington's tomb, at Mount Vernon,
Virginia, is seventeen miles south of the
Capitol.
The Scott statue in Washington, which is
made of bronze. weighs 200 pounds and cost
100000.
The great bronze door of the east front
entrance of the rotunda of the Capitol weighs
10000 pounds and cost S2S, 600.
The statue of Gen Mcpherson, located in
Mcpherson square in Washington city, cost
S23, 500 and weighs 1000 pounds.
The appropriations made by congress, from
1900 to date, for the erection and remodeling
of the Capitol amount to over Sl5, 100000
The dome of the United States Capitol is
2s714 feet high. The weight of the iron alone
in the dome OF the Capitol is S,909, 200 pounds.
The fifty-one ond half acres of ground
around the Capitol, which are known as tho
"Capitol Grounds" cost the government
1854, 100.
The water used in the White House for
drinking purposes is conveyed TO the mansion
by pipes from spring in Franklin park,
several squares distant.
Sir Joseph Porter, K C. B., never presided
over anything more absurd than the court
martial held in Washington lately to decide
what punishment should be awarded an alan-
doned lieutenant who let his children skate on
q garrison ice pond when the commanding
officer had issued an order TINT they should
not.
Recently young man who, following ON
the heels of "The minister of tho Sandwich
Islands," as the darky beloved it out at
state reception in Washington, jocosely saitl
to his partner: "Now, we are Mr.. and Mrs.
Smith, of the Fejee islands, This was
while they stood at the threshold waiting for
the grandee ahead of them to get on. The
colored gentleman heard, and in a moment
transfxed them with horror and electrified
the company by shouting at the top of his
lungs: "Mr and Mrs Smith, of the Fejee
islands" Coming out from reception one
night where there was chaos among the car.
riages and the footmen were bawling for
everybody's carriage at once, some wag
shouted, "Tle Irish minister's carriageip and
tho cry was passed from coachinan to coach
man, and rang around the block for an hour.
OCCUPATIONS IN NEW YORK.
An ex-pugilist has monopoly as tho at
torDey for tho Chinese.
Four prosperous citizens earn their living
by tloctoring the lap dogs of rich women.
One man keeps photographs Of all the
notable persons in the world. He is tho only
one of his kind in New York.
Several establishments are proftably en-
gagged in painting black eyes with a mixture
OF sixparts white paint and one part red.
Clippings from newspapers that mention
public men are sold to them at Ave cents
clipping, added TO q subscription fee each
year. fess
One enterprising citizen goes about New
York at night with a lantern searching tho
streets for coins and purses dropped during
the evening.
a rich italian employs horde of his
countrymen, called 4trimnlers," to save for
him oil the rags fat, bones, metal and other
refuse flung in househodcrs' ash barrels
A profitable business for one New Yorker
is to hunt up coats of arms and pedigrees for
MI who think theirs have been overlooked or
that they may get them from families of the
same name as their own.
woman in New York has opened three
booths where she is supplying food at one
cent meal. At present the bill of fare in
cludes coffee. soup, beans and bread and on
Fridays fish cliowtler